LIQUID CRYSTAL DISPLAY DEVICE

摘要

A liquid crystal display device (1) according to an embodiment is equipped with an array substrate (6) a color filter substrate (5) a liquid crystal layer (7) a backlight (4) and a control unit (12). The array substrate (6) is provided with a plurality of pixel electrodes corresponding to a plurality of pixels arranged in a matrix pattern. The color filter substrate (5) faces the array substrate (6) and is provided with a color filter (16) corresponding to the plurality of pixels. The liquid crystal layer (7) is positioned between the array substrate (6) and the color filter substrate (5). The backlight (4) is positioned on the rear surface of the array substrate (6). The control unit (12) controls the timing of application of voltage to the pixel electrodes and the timing of light emission from the backlight (4). The plurality of pixels are shaped to be a parallelogram that is long in the horizontal direction and have the same color arranged in the horizontal direction and different colors arranged in the vertical direction. Neighboring pixels in the horizontal direction have line symmetry along the center line of the neighboring pixels. The liquid crystal molecules of the neighboring pixels have negative dielectric anisotropy and rotate horizontally to the plane of the substrate or in other words in the direction of line symmetry along the center line when voltage is imparted to the pixel electrode corresponding to the neighboring pixels.